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Nuclear mitochondrial DNA activates replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
PloS one - 8 Mar 2011
Chatre Laurent, Ricchetti Miria
Abstract excerpt
The nuclear genome of eukaryotes is colonized by DNA fragments of mitochondrial origin, called NUMTs. These insertions have been associated with a variety of germ-line diseases in humans. The significance of this uptake of potentially dangerous sequences into the nuclear genome is unclear. Here we provide functional evidence that sequences of mitochondrial origin promote nuclear DNA replication in Saccharomyces...
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